"Without firing a single missile, President Reagan actually brought down the Soviet Union, and you've got right not a President who's you know, John Kerry's flying around and drinking merlot with people, and saying, 'Let's all be friends,' and they're laughing at us right now," he said.

15 for 5 liters around here. People in wine growing countries drink a lot of cheap wine. They don't spend 20 bucks on a bottle every day. I was on a flight last year where one of the other passengers ask the flight attendant if the wine was French. She said Yes. It comes in a box but it is French. I chuckled heartily.

Riche:Well, FFS-- what would these chucklefarks at CPAC have Obama do? Call up the reserves and invade? Carpet bomb Moscow? Start flinging Tomahawk missiles in random directions?

Would they be mollified if Kerry downed a fifth of Tequila and swam across the Atlantic?

Thank the gods these idiots are not in the big chair right now-- We would all be dead or breathing radioactive fallout.

Regardless of what he does, Obama will be criticized by these bozos as having done exactly the wrong thing. NOTHING would mollify them.

And considering how ignorant and pliable their belief system is, they'd back a Republican President that nuked the Ukraine (yes, the people we're trying to help), or told them Putin was a good man and his actions were justified.

xenophon10k:Without firing a single missile, President Reagan actually brought down the Soviet Union

THIS IS WHAT REPUBLICANS ACTUALLY BELIEVE

Back in high school I was surrounded by a bunch of very right oriented kids (pretty much all due to parental influence) and I had to do a report on the end of the Cold War and I think it was one of the best things that opened my eyes to just how delusional people are with Reagan.

One thing I was told in France was that because the French like to drink so much wine, the average person cannot realistically drink 50 Euro bottles with every meal. They drink much cheaper table wines or house wines. That's what I found so cool--you don't have to know much about wines, because their cheaper wines are meant to be drinkable by the average person. At least, I never had a bad experience with house or table wines.

Marcus Aurelius:We're not the ones that just lost a huge chunk of territory, so I have no idea why anyone would be laughing at us right now.

Exactly. As much as the Republicans want everything to be about the United States, not everything in the world is about the United States. We aren't going to get in a shooting war with the Russians over this, so, other than that, there's not really anything we can do if Putin is willing to stand his ground and take a hit to his stockmarket and accept a few international sanctions.

born_yesterday:That's what I found so cool--you don't have to know much about wines, because their cheaper wines are meant to be drinkable by the average person. At least, I never had a bad experience with house or table wines.

This is actually fairly solid advice no matter where you go. Most of the time, the dishes will be prepared with the house wine in mind and they should pair nicely.

I was talking to someone from England about the pros and cons of our country and when it looked like I was winning (barely) he said. " Yeah but your country has Republicans"ToucheI would not wish Republicans on any country to be honest